The engineer assumes far too much good faith by Microsoft. He focuses on the idea that Windows was built for casual users and the online vocal power users that want to stretch the normal use of the system don't like how their strange choices are handled and yell online setting the narrative. His advice boils down to, 'give a power user mode that lets you control the telemetry, turns off ads and searches in your start menu, lets you boot without an online account, bundle all OEM installed apps in one bundle, respecting changing defaults like web browser." Like, sweetheart, I'm gonna hold your hand when I say this, Microsoft didn't stumble backwards into including ads and locking out offline accounts, they are incentivized to be shit like this.

He suggests in addition to buying windows it having a monthly fee for this pro mode to allow for such freedoms, "because they can't just give windows away forever hoping to make it up on OneDrive fees." Cool, I'd rather stick to linux, thanks.

And I said nothing because ACAB

Thesis: Lemmy is better!

Antithesis: Piefed is better!

Synthesis: Bitch, they're federated??

The idea that manuals in linux are a good way to learn and understand new software is peak linux neckbeard bs, and I will die on this hill. I congratulate OP on the exact type of autism that lets them feel this is an effective and useful method for learning new software, but if there is desire to have a greater adoption of linux maybe its bad to be snarky at folks for not instantly understand the terminal based documentation conventions of some dudes in the 70s. Maybe an alphabetical* list of all possible options is okay for referencing or searching, but is objectively insane way to learn or understand a problem.

That's the neat part.

we disparately are turned against our allies.

Tucker Carlson is your ally?

Phew, well thank goodness all the users are safe from authoritarian red fascist code!

Super cool that we build a system that is only held accountable months later through courts that were taken over.

Sure, but there is a difference between a hacked together solution being removed as the community expanded, and coding in a petty gripe with a particular user.

I didn't 🥺

Finally, I will memory safe when I accidentally send a broken Invoke-WebRequest 🙂

In Bo Burnham fan circles people joked that That Funny Feeling from Inside is the truer generational update to We Didn't Start the Fire 🥲

I can't wait until someone realizes this blatant corruption and we can do more than point it out.

Sorry kids these days can't handle acoustic emoji ¬_¬

*it has been become quite normalized

Well Windows sales might, but that's why you gotta pay for pro mode that removes all the ad shit. Otherwise they would lose out on the additional 2/5 or whatever that comes from their ad-ware

To give a comparison, this is the sort of energy you often see in stars, cars, or springs.

I am less sympathetic about it. He says it's a love letter wrapped in a complaint, essentially saying 'Windows is shitty because of all the enshitification they've done', yeah bud, we know.

Hasn't she's been a figure on the "SWJs are ruining the world" side of youtube for almost a decade now?

I would take them at their word for that. If they made some sort of hyper real super pleasure heaven of pure bliss the tendency towards betterment would drive humans insane. Maybe once that failed there were just like 'these fuckers are a mess, just dupe back when they thought they were happy and call it good.'